In hi-cang county, north Korea today, there is a cemetery where 134 Chinese volunteer martyrs are stored.
In the cemetery, there is a statue of the upper body of a young warrior, next to which stands a stone stele made of granite material, with 7 large characters of "Tomb of Comrade Mao Anying" on the front and an inscription carved by the Chinese People's Association for Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea on the back:
"Comrade Mao Anying was originally from Shaoshanchong, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, and was the eldest son of Comrade Mao Zedong, the leader of the Chinese people. In 1950, he resolutely requested to join the Chinese Volunteer Army and died heroically in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea on November 25, 1950. Comrade Mao Anying's spirit of patriotism and internationalism will forever educate and inspire the younger generation. The martyr Mao Anying is immortal! ”
Comrade Mao Anying, the first volunteer of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, was also the eldest son of Chairman Mao.
- War breaks out
In June 1950, the Korean War officially broke out.
In October of the same year, the United Nations army led by the United States brazenly crossed the 38th Line, repeatedly sent aircraft to invade China's airspace, bombed the Dandong area, and burned the war to China's territory.
Just at this time, he received a letter of help from the North Korean side Kim Il Sung and a telegram from the Soviet side. The Soviet Union hoped that China would send troops to Korea, and the Soviet Union would provide weapons and equipment for assistance. The DPRK side also hopes that the Chinese government can immediately send troops into the DPRK for support.
However, at this time, New China was in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, and the country was not at peace, and it was also necessary to prevent the Kuomintang reactionaries from counterattacking the mainland plan. The overwhelming majority of the Party Central Committee did not approve of sending troops to Korea at this time. In view of all these difficulties, Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee need to be cautious and cautious.
On the afternoon of October 5, after many meetings, the PARTY Central Committee finally decided to support the DPRK, form the Chinese Volunteer Army, enter the DPRK to fight, and appoint Peng Dehuai as the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
- The first volunteer of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army
When Comrade Mao Anying learned of the news of his invasion of Korea after the meeting, he immediately submitted a letter of request to the organization, hoping to join the Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Because Chairman Mao already had several relatives who had sacrificed for the sake of New China, no one in the organization dared to approve his request, and the petition was sent to Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao was very pleased when he saw this and supported his approach.
On October 7, Chairman Mao set up a banquet at the Juxiang Bookstore in Zhongnanhai for Peng Dehuai' feast, and Mao Anying was also present. Mao Anying then made a request to Peng Dehuai that he could also join the Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Peng Dehuai said in an almost refusal tone: "Kishi Ying, it is very dangerous to go to Korea, our air defense is weak, and US planes bomb everywhere." You are in the rear, and you are also engaged in construction to support the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. ”
Chairman Mao then interjected: "Old Peng, just take him." Kishi Ying knows Russian, and when you go to Korea, you will inevitably deal with the Soviets, so I think he will work as a Russian translator. Chairman Mao said this, and Peng Dehuai was not good at refuting anything.
In this way, Comrade Mao Anying became the first volunteer of the Chinese Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
- leave
On October 19, 1950, 260,000 soldiers of the people secretly crossed the Yalu River in three ways. Peng Dehuai and his party arrived in the DPRK first to meet with Kim Il Sung, and after understanding the specific situation, Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai decided to set up the headquarters near Daeyudong. The headquarters of the Volunteer Army was located in three improvised sheds.
On October 23, Mao Anying arrived at the Dayudong Headquarters, and in order to work better, Mao Anying incarnated as "Secretary Liu" and served as the Headquarters' Russian translator and confidential secretary.
In North Korea, Mao Anying did not complain at all about the hard work and poor conditions, but not only did his job beautifully, but sometimes participated in the work of helping other personnel. Only a very small number of people in the headquarters knew Mao Anying's true identity. Peng Dehuai repeatedly proposed that Mao Anying eat with him, but Mao Anying refused, believing that he was Chairman Mao's son and the people's son and should not be special. He told Peng Dehuai that it was all the same meal, and it was more casual to eat with the staff officers in the office.
After the end of the First Korean Campaign, Kim Il Sung and representatives of the Soviet side came to Dayudong to meet with Peng Dehuai, and Mao Anying served as the translator of the conference.
During the short years in Korea, Comrade Mao Anying always remembered a passage from his father before his departure: "You are a member of the Communist Party and the son of mao Zedong, and when you arrive on the Korean battlefield, you must bear hardships first and sacrifice first." ”
Mao Anying never looked up to himself, and wherever the warriors ate and lived, he ate and lived wherever he lived. Like ordinary soldiers, until the bombers came, only a very small number of people knew that he was Chairman Mao's child Mao Anying.
- You never know which tomorrow or the unexpected comes first
Since The Great Elm Cave became the headquarters, frequent telegrams have been monitored by the U.S. military's radio monitors. The U.S. military believed that the Great Yudong was likely to be an important command organization of the Chinese side, so it began to continuously send aircraft to reconnoiter and harass.
On November 24, enemy aircraft continued to reconnoiter over the Great Elm Cave, but did not dive and strafe as before. This abnormal phenomenon has aroused the great concern of Hong Xuezhi, deputy commander of the Volunteer Army. At the same time, Hong Xuezhi immediately convened a question about the air raid shelter, and the meeting unanimously decided to transfer the information to the air raid shelter early in the morning of November 25 and work in the air raid shelter.
In the early morning of November 25, everyone had breakfast early and began to transfer information to the bomb shelter. At 11 o'clock, the air raid siren of the Big Elm Cave sounded, and everyone did not panic, and quickly entered the air raid shelter as usual to avoid the bombing. At this time, the four American planes flying by did not drop bombs or low-altitude strafing, and flew around the Big Elm Cave before flying away.
After waiting for a few more moments, mao Anying and several other staff officers walked out of the air raid shelter and went to the war room to get the unfinished combat documents.
However, shortly after Mao Anying entered the war room, several planes that had just flown away turned back and accurately dropped a hundred petrol bombs on the volunteer headquarters, and the headquarters was immediately engulfed in flames, and for a time the Big Yu Cave was in flames. Comrade Mao Anying and another staff officer died heroically because they were far from the exit of the war room and could not escape for a while.
Mao Anying was only 28 years old when he died. Another staff officer, Gao Ruixin, was only 23 years old.
After the fire was extinguished by the soldiers, two unrecognizable bodies were found in the war room, and It was only through a watch worn on the wrist that Mao Anying was distinguished from another staff officer. When cleaning up Comrade Mao Anying's relics, everyone found only a worn-out canvas bag, ordinary items, a small pair of scissors, a few old clothes, and a few books he was reading before he died.
Peng Dehuai, who had rushed to hear the news, stood for a long time in front of the burned-out war room, his eyes were red, he did not eat at noon, he sat in the makeshift conference room and pondered for a long time, after which he decided to personally write a telegram to report the matter to the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao.
- Top-secret documents are public
The telegram remained a top-secret document until the twentieth episode of a documentary "Resisting US Aggression, Aiding Korea, Defending the Homeland" aired on CCTV on November 9, 2020, was first made public.
The contents of the telegram were more than a hundred words, and the first person to receive the telegram was Ye Zilong, director of the Confidential Office of the Central General Office; after reading it, he learned that this matter was no small matter and immediately sent it to Premier Zhou Enlai's office. After a moment of grief, Premier Zhou immediately summoned Chairman Mao's personal bodyguards and others to discuss whether to report the matter to Chairman Mao immediately.
Premier Zhou was well aware of how much this incident would be a blow to Chairman Mao, and after deliberation, decided to conceal the matter for the time being, first, chairman Mao was commanding the second battle, and second, Chairman Mao was weak at that time, and it was precisely when he needed to be adjusted, and it was not suitable for too much emotional fluctuation.
- The pride of the whole Chinese people
On January 2, 1952, after the victory of the Second Battle of the Chinese Volunteer Army in the Korean War, the situation in Korea stabilized and improved, and Chairman Mao's health had improved at this time, and Premier Zhou himself wrote a handwritten letter and handed it to Ye Zilong together with Peng Dehuai's telegram for him to send to Chairman Mao.
When Ye Zilong walked into Chairman Mao's office with a telegram and a handwritten letter, Chairman Mao was looking at the newspaper as usual. After handing over the telegram to Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao's expression after reading the telegram was very calm, but the chairman read the telegram for three or four minutes after only a hundred words, which showed that the chairman's heart was not really calm, in fact, it was very sad, but his identity was limited, and he could not directly express it.
For a long time afterward, the office could only hear the sound of Chairman Mao taking a big mouthful of smoking, and Chairman Mao, who had finished smoking, sighed: "Alas, whoever made him a son of Mao Zedong, war will always kill people, nothing." ”
- Buried bones why mulberry land, life is full of green mountains.
Later, when someone proposed to transport Mao Anying's body back to China for burial, Chairman Mao said: "Wherever the Communists die, they will be buried." Mao Anying died in North Korea, I don't think there is any need to bring his body back, where to bury him! ”
In 1955, the Hinokura Chinese People's Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemetery was completed, and The tomb of Mao Anying was relocated from the back mountain of Dayu Cave to be buried here. It was once the headquarters of the Chinese Volunteer Army.
The martyr Mao Anying is here, along with many other volunteer martyrs who died in Korea, to continue to guard The People of China and the Dprk, watching the prosperity and prosperity of the land for which they once gave their lives.
Mao Anying and the thousands of Chinese sons and soldiers who sacrificed their lives in Korea will always be the pride of the Chinese and DPRK peoples, and the Chinese and DPRK peoples will always remember their great contributions to the peace between China and the DPRK!